By an 11th Grade Student – Bnos Menachem
Our class has a project that we want to share with everyone.
We are now distributing wristbands with a message: “Spread the Warmth — One Person at a Time.”
We are speaking about the warmth of R. Mordechai Goldin a”h.
R. Mordechai Goldin always put others before himself and found ways to make everyone he encountered feel special. He was totally genuine, and people felt it. His special kind of warmth drew people to him; and it was this warmth that gave so many a sense of great loss with his passing.
I knew R. Mordechai as my school bus driver, as everyone’s favorite “Ice Cream Man,” and later on, as my friend Tova’s father.
His kindness was manifest in everything he did. As a bus driver, he always played along with us. I mean, who else would be willing to be called “Mordechai the pizza pie” again and again? From his ice cream truck, he took notice of the kids who stood on the side without money and always gave them ice-cream for free…
These few encounters that I had with R. Mordechai, and the snippets of stories I heard about him, made a lasting impression on me. And if he was able to have such an impact on a relative stranger, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have really known R. Mordechai…
We, his daughter’s classmates and friends, are now handing out these bracelets with the sincere hope that they will remind people to spread the warmth of R. Mordechai Goldin and increase ahavas yisroel.
Ahavas yisroel comes with recognizing that as yidden, we are all a part of one whole. When we remember that we are truly and deeply connected, all that separates us becomes trivial and falls by the wayside. With this, we will be able to see others from a place of warmth, truth and sincerity, like R. Mordechai did.
May our efforts to achieve true ahavas yisroel bear fruit, and help bring about the coming of moshiach when we will be united with our loved ones and R. Mordechai Goldin be’soichom.
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From the editor: Mordechai’s friends have started a “Give Back to Mordechai” fundraising campaign.
To donate, go to gofundme.com/mordechai
These wristbands are being given out to dozens of camps around the U.S. and Canada. The idea is for the campers to take on a resolution in spreading warmth and kindness in their interactions with each other, and the wristbands are a reminder to keep to it.
If you would like to give these out in your camp or for more. information please email: [email protected]
Very touched
The relative limited amount we collected thus far is — you are right — quite upsetting. But it has nothing to do with people’s lack of generosity, and is entirely caused by our inability to get more people informed about the campaign. We need people to SPREAD THE WORD!
These wristbands are being given out to dozens of camps around the U.S. and Canada. The idea is for the campers to take on a resolution in spreading warmth and kindness in their interactions with each other, and the wristbands are a reminder to keep to it.
If you would like to give these out in your camp or for more. information please email: [email protected]
he really was a tzadik in such a tznius and humble way!!
he will be missed by all those who knew him!
not enough this unbelievable tzadik left us all at a young age .
Why is there only around 58k people donated to this family?
Its our responsiablity to make sure this family is set for life.
The family has no income.
How is this family going to survive on 58k
open your hearts and give money
HELP HELP HELP HELP THIS FAMILY
What an amazing project!
I never knew R’ Mordechai, but from what Ive been reading and hearing over the past few weeks, the man sounds like one of these quiet tzaddikim!
If the impact of his ahavas Yisroel has left such an immense hashpoah on these boys, to want to emulate his ways, maybe its something we too should and could focus on
Kudos to you boys, may we all take a page from their book!
Please make the checks out to “Chabad of Rego Park”‘
put “Goldin Family Fund” in the memo
and mail to:
Goldin Family Fund
c/o Chabad of Rego Park
97-17 64th Road, Second Floor
Rego Park, NY 11374-1440
So beautiful that the girls in Bnos Menachem were able to put this together.
Goldin Family Fund c/o Chabad of Rego Park 97-17 64th Road, Second Floor Rego Park, NY 11374-1440
Is there an address I can send a check direct from my bank ???